Attention frackers profit by covertly dominating attention formation.

Evidence

The bad news is that the attention frackers have gotten really, really good at sneakily teaching us how to attend. They’ve also gotten really, really good at getting us to maximize the amount of time we spend in their classroom—which, thanks to some clever tech, is small enough that anyone capable of using the toilet alone can hold it in the palm of one hand. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 200

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social networks disguised attention capture beneath promises of connection. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 973; Mass-media profits derive from non-reciprocal attention exchange — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 251; Attention-extraction rose from side hustle to center of plutocratic profit — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 98 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Social networks disguised attention capture beneath promises of connection. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 973; Mass-media profits derive from non-reciprocal attention exchange — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 251; Attention-extraction rose from side hustle to center of plutocratic profit — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 98 (+1 more)